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Europe and the US have agreed a common application form for companies applying for orphan drug designation.

The European Association of Research and Technology Organisations and other technology bodies have established a blog to help users of Framework Programme 7.

One of the largest gifts to research ever in Norway is to establish a Centre for Innovation Research in Stavanger.

Biotech organisations in one of Europe’s leading bioclusters are to discuss how to increase public–private collaborations in the field of biosystems.

A new fund to attract international researchers and encourage greater collaboration between UK and overseas scientists was announced by science minister Ian Pearson.

A workshop will show how advances in measurement, characterisation and analytical technologies are driving commercialisation in the health and personal care sectors.

Industrialist Adolphe Merkle is donating his fortune to bolster nanotechnology in his alma mater. His move may be replicated by other rich Swiss entrepreneurs.

The likes of Microsoft, Oracle and IBM are all queuing to access Aulas’ French software company Cegid’s specialist niches in the small and medium-size companies market.

Current holder of the EU presidency Portugal is claiming a breakthrough in the long-running drive to create a unified patent litigation system across Europe.

EU national ministers have agreed a new kind of public–private research partnership that will see nearly €10 billion ploughed into joint technology initiatives.